59 stories by "Jake Coyle"
NEW YORK (AP) -- On Tuesday, it will be "1984" again in movie theaters across the country....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Seeking a break from green screens and lightsabers while shooting "The Force Awakens" outside London, J.J. Abrams decided to catch a play....
There have been great movies about Hollywood almost as long as Hollywood has been making them. Damien Chazelle's much-Oscar nominated "La La Land" is part of a gra…
NEW YORK (AP) -- These are divisive times. Agreement is hard to come by. Passions on both sides are inflamed. And "Saturday Night Live" is providing some of the most…
History, both recent and ancient, was made across Tuesday's 89th annual Academy Awards nominations, where the retro musical "La La Land" reaped a record-tying 14 nominations and a wave of Af…
NEW YORK (AP) -- In Hollywood's early but rapidly solidifying awards season, two films - radically different in tone and tune - have separated themselves from the pack: &…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bogart and Bacall. Tracy and Hepburn. Stone and Gosling....
NEW YORK (AP) -- After spending two straight falls consumed by awards season, Eddie Redmayne is taking a break from the Oscars and fronting his first franchise....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Propelled by the popularity of Paula Hawkins' best-seller, the adaptation of "The Girl on the Train" led North American theaters in ticket …
The filmmaker Mira Nair was familiar with the regal grace of Lupita Nyong'o long before most.
TORONTO (AP) -- Movies aren't what they were. I'll wait for it on Netflix. Television is so much better right now....
TORONTO (AP) -- The 41st Toronto International Film Festival has gotten underway with Antoine Fuqua's remake of "The Magnificent Seven," an old-school Weste…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Good improv is like a magic act, conjured out of thin air. A handful of people step onto the stage with nothing prepared, and - poof! - an hour of laughs tumbles fort…
NEW YORK (AP) -- The first time Steven Spielberg offered a role to Mark Rylance, the actor said no. That was 30 years ago for "Empire of the Sun." Now, Rylance can&a…
Blake Edwards, 88, died from complications of pneumonia Wednesday evening at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., after being hospitalized for about two weeks.
TORONTO (AP) -- Anna Kendrick is done with musicals. No really. She swears....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Elaine Stritch, the brash theater performer whose gravelly, gin-laced voice and impeccable comic timing made her a Broadway legend, has died. She was 89....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Elaine Stritch, the brash theater performer whose gravelly, gin-laced voice and impeccable comic timing made her a theatrical icon, has died, according to Brigade Market…
Roman Polanski. Sadomasochism. What could possible go wrong?...
Ahead of his Broadway adaptation "Jersey Boys" on Friday, Clint Eastwood, 84, shares his thoughts on how to stay young, his first time acting and why America is "floundering":...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amid the swirl of an early 1960s party scene in Clint Eastwood's latest, an adaptation of "Jersey Boys," the hit Broadway musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Season…
For a documentary subject as forceful as Elaine Stritch, filmmakers may need to turn to nature - a typhoon might do it - to find anything approximate. Even the camera must warily keep its di…
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a medium that prizes glamor and flash, Philip Seymour Hoffman offered the opposite in film: untidy, imperfect, shy, awkward and eminently real people....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in "Capote" and created a gallery of other vivid characters, m…
Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in "Capote" and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly …
